This marks HCC as one of the few community colleges with its own residence hall. The college has five campuses located throughout the county. Locations include: Brandon, Dale Mabry, Plant City, Ybor City, and South Shore (on the south shore of Tampa Bay in Ruskin). There are also instructional centers at MacDill Air Force Base (South Tampa/aligned with the Plant City Campus) and at the Regent (Riverview) aligned with the Brandon Campus.
A splenectomy is the surgical removal of the spleen, a small, hand-sized organ located in front of the left kidney and behind the stomach. The spleen...
The spleen is a vital organ that filters and eliminates infection causing agents from the blood. It also gets rid of old, abnormal blood cells and maintains a normal supply of healthy cells. In normal conditions, the spleen is roughly the size of our fist. When it gets inflamed and swollen, the size increases considerably; and the condition is called splenomegaly. The chief symptom is pain. At first, pain is felt in the upper abdomen; it gradually extends to the left shoulder.